Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Double Narratives in the Rise and Development of Biblical Criticism -- 1.1 Early Biblical Criticism -- 1.2 Source Criticism: Wellhausen -- 1.3 Source Criticism After Wellhausen -- 1.4 Form and Tradition-historical Criticism: Gunkel -- 1.5 Form and Tradition-historical Criticism After Gunkel -- 1.6 Scandinavian Scholarship -- 1.7 Koch, Van Seters -- 1.8 "Holistic" Approaches to Double Narratives -- 1.9 Summary -- Chapter 2: Double Narratives as Indicators of Documents or Literary Artistry -- 2.1 The Nature of Biblical Criticism: The Role of Models in Methodology -- 2.2 The "Nature" Model: Spinoza -- 2.3 The "Archivist-Historian": Simon and Astruc -- 2.4 "The Historian": Wellhausen -- 2.5 "Literary Artist": Alter -- Chapter 3: Double Narratives as Oral Variants -- 3.1 Oral Genres and the Old Testament Narrative -- 3.2 Old Testament Narrative Genres as Oral Genres: A Reevaluation -- 3.3 Oral Composition and Transmission: The Dynamics of Variant Development -- 3.4 Gunkel's Concept of Oral Variants: An Evaluation -- 3.5 Summary -- Chapter 4: Double Narratives: Towards a Definition -- 4.1 Double Narrative Terminology in Old Testament Scholarship -- 4.2 Towards a Definition -- 4.3 Literary and Textual Variants -- 4.4 Appraisal -- 4.5 Textual Variants and Double Narratives - An Interface? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index 1: Biblical References -- Index 2: Authors -- Index 3: Subjects.